{"id":13971,"date":"2014-10-30T13:04:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T18:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13971"},"modified":"2014-10-30T13:04:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T18:04:09","slug":"he-atlantic-a-hotels-right-to-protect-the-privacy-of-its-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13971","title":{"rendered":"he Atlantic: A Hotel&#8217;s Right to Protect the Privacy of Its Guests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2014\/10\/a-hotels-right-to-protect-the-privacy-of-its-guests\/382122\/\">A Hotel&#8217;s Right to Protect the Privacy of Its Guests<\/a> by Conor Friedersdorf:<\/p>\n<p>Can police can demand records of where, when, and with whom people slept without a warrant?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Imagine that you own a small hotel or motel. One weekend, a group booking arrives and checks in. While taking their IDs and license-plate information, you discover that they&#8217;re visiting town to attend a political conference the following day. If you&#8217;re a conservative, imagine that they&#8217;re Tea Partiers or NRA members. If you&#8217;re a liberal, think of them as Occupy Wall Street protesters or anti-war activists. Now imagine that an hour, or a day, or two weeks later, a police officer shows up demanding to see all the information you collected from those customers. He has neither a warrant nor any evidence that the guests committed a crime. As a hotel or motel owner, should you be compelled to turn over their information?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic: A Hotel&#8217;s Right to Protect the Privacy of Its Guests by Conor Friedersdorf: Can police can demand records of where, when, and with whom people slept without a warrant? Imagine that you own a small hotel or motel. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13971\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-expectation-of-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13971"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13972,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13971\/revisions\/13972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}